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This month Violet and Joey learn about The World as Amplifier, The End, and Lucky People.
#1 "The World as Amplifier" at http://www.doyletics.com/10267916.gif
#2 "The End" at http://www.doyletics.com/10267917.gif
#3 "Lucky People" at http://www.doyletics.com/11017918.gif
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Out Our Way:
April has been another busy month. Whoever chose April as Tax Return month must have had it
in for New Orleans because it is the most glorious month of the year. Clear bright skies and cool
shirt sleeve weather, low humidity and the whole world calls for us to be outside, while we
struggle miserably indoors with our income tax returns! Those of us who don't have a CPA on
retainer, that is. Time to get rid of income taxes with its nosy IRS minions and replace the tax
system with a simple, everybody pays, sales tax. Pay taxes one-time when you buy something.
Encourage savings and investment — that will put everyone to work at good jobs — jobs that add
to the net worth of this country, instead taking away from it in unproductive time filling out tax
returns on beautiful days in the Spring!
I attended the Mass of Chrism on the Tuesday before Easter at the St. Louis Basilica in Jackson
Square. You know it from its status as the trademark or logo of New Orleans - instantly
recognizable. I think it's fantastic to live in a city whose universally recognized icon is a church.
I believe it is the first cathedral in the USA and is situated between the oldest apartment
buildings in the country, the ones designed and funded by Baroness Pontalba. Look for an opera
about this amazing woman soon, as the New Orleans Opera Guild has commissioned one to be
written. During the Chrism Mass, the oils used by the entire Archdiocese of New Orleans are
blessed and distributed to the almost 400 priests in attendance, all decked out in their white
scapulae with colorful designs on each. Quite a parade of saints when they come marching into
the cathedral to the sounds of trumpets and the angelic voices of the Boys' Choir. I never miss
this wonderful ceremony. Afterward I had my café-au-lait and beignets [square donuts dusted
with powdered sugar] at Café du Monde. My friend Hock Barthelemew was holding forth on the
sidewalk outside, playing his trumpet and singing "Amazing Grace". This year he had a guitar
accompaniment, a guitarist from New Mexico in town for the Jazz Fest.
For Easter Sunday, we were invited by our friend Captain Andy to join him and his
family in their Greek Easter celebration at his home on the eastern edge of Lake Pontchartrain.
Sitting there with the cool breeze in our faces, looking out at the sailboats on the lake, I couldn't
imagine a more wonderful place to be on an Easter Sunday. We've been to Capt. Andy's for
Greek Easter several times before, but this is the first time the Western and the Greek Easters
coincided on the same Sunday; usually the Greek Easter comes on the Sunday after the Western
celebration. Did I mention the food? I cooked a turkey and oyster dressing and by the looks of
the meager leftovers, it found a place on dinner plates along with the cabbage rolls, roast lamb,
baklava, and other things whose Greek names I can't recall.
On the Thursday after Easter, I got a contract writing procedures for an offshore platform,
a dynamically positioned rig. What that means is that the rig is actually a ship
with eight thrusters and a Captain [DPO] whose collective job is to keep the ship in the same
place with a foot or two so that drilling may proceed safely and efficiently. You might say that I
was floating out in the middle of the Gulf but I never moved for a whole week. Click Here to see rig.
This weekend we're going to a birthday party for our friend Gail, a special function at
Holy Family Church with my dad, a crawfish boil at my daughter Maureen's in-laws, and the
newlyweds, Doyle and Norma Henderson arrived in town in their 38' Motorhome. They joined
us in Bobby Jeaux's Kitchen last night.
Our grandson, Gabe, made his First Communion, and our grandson, Sam, in Little
League baseball, made the All-Star team for his league.
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